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WASHINGTON – March 18, 2019
The New York Times published a piece titled “Trump's Blistering Speech at CPAC Follows Bannon's Blueprint.” The article intentionally tried to mislead readers and cause chaos and panic by lying about what President Trump said during his CPAC speech.
From the NYT:
“His speech also included a promise to throw undocumented immigrants ‘the hell out of the country’ and a recitation of his law-and-order campaign promises.”
A keyword search of the transcript of the President’s speech for the term “undocumented” revealed that President Trump never even used that word, as the screenshot below indicates.
Below is what President Trump actually said during his CPAC speech.
From Time:
“We are also going to save countless American lives. As we speak today, immigration offers are finding the gang members, the drug dealers and the criminal aliens and throwing them the hell out of our country.”
Thus, the President was only referring to gang members, drug dealers and criminal aliens.
Any groups falsely reporting such activities are doing a disservice to those they claim to support
— ICE (@ICEgov) February 18, 2017
Any groups falsely reporting such activities are doing a disservice to those they claim to support.
An undisguised case of cynicism was when the NYT primarily accused Trump of calling the liberal media "fake news" and immediately afterwards published a fake about Trump.
Julie Davis is a well-known White House reporter for the NYT and also CNN, another fake news outlet. She was covering the President’s rally in Tennessee on May 30, 2018 and was totally disturbed by this:
Depressing sight at Trump rally in Nashville: adorable young boy, probly about my son's age, pointing iPhone at me & other reporters & snapping pix while screaming "FAKE NEWS!" A child who will grow up believing a free & fair press is the enemy, a bad thing, to be mocked & hated
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) May 30, 2018
Davis then vastly underestimated the crowd size at Trump’s rally, something that caught the attention of the President:
The Failing and Corrupt @nytimes estimated the crowd last night at “1000 people,” when in fact it was many times that number - and the arena was rockin’. This is the way they demean and disparage. They are very dishonest people who don’t “get” me, and never did!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018
This is the correction Davis and the NYT issued approximately 16 hours after she was upset that Trump supporters see her as a purveyor of fake news:
President @realDonaldTrump is correct about his crowd last night. My estimate was way off, and we have corrected our story to reflect the fire marshal’s estimate of 5,500 people. When we get it wrong, we say so. https://t.co/AX2JkAMyh4 https://t.co/2LbfmkiSti
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) May 30, 2018
Apparently what Davis meant was that she and the Times aren’t fake news expect for all of those times they publish fake news. In the liberal mind, that is a legitimate distinction.
We have updated the article to reflect the fire marshal’s estimate of the crowd's size. https://t.co/u3y6Aarcio pic.twitter.com/iPynTX9NWV
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) May 30, 2018
Here’s the thing too: Davis didn’t actually make a bad guess and say that 5,500 people were really only 1,000. She did this on purpose to attack Trump, knowing that he likes to brag about his crowd sizes. This was not an honest mistake, it was a calculated lie. The only problem was that she got caught. That it came immediately after she was complaining about being labeled “fake news” makes it hilarious.
In a similar case, NYT published a photo deliberately reducing the number of people on it to show that Trump remains the lowest political force compared to Obama in 2015.
Patriots' turnout for President Obama in 2015 vs. Patriots' turnout for President Trump today: https://t.co/OxMEOqZonI pic.twitter.com/pLmJWhOw1j
— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) April 19, 2017
This concerns the annual the New England Patriots meeting, from which it followed that the alleged delegation of 2017 was much smaller than it was in 2015 to Obama. In fact, in 2015, they all stood next to the podium. And in 2017, some were placed behind the photographer on the lawn (as follows from the New England Patriots tweet). NYT recognized the fake-ish partially – allegedly there were more athletes in the 2015 delegation, and in 2017 more staff.
These photos lack context. Facts: In 2015, over 40 football staff were on the stairs. In 2017, they were seated on the South Lawn. https://t.co/iIYtV0hR6Y
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) April 20, 2017
According to another scandalous NYT disclosure, the FBI investigation into Russian collusion began after drunken Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos reportedly told Australian diplomat Alexander Downer at a London bar in May 2016 that "Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton." When DNC emails began to leak, Australia apparently contacted US intelligence to report the drunken admission by Papadopoulos, igniting the Russia probe.
This event turned out to be one of the loudest in the history of so-called journalism where reporters literally exposed Russian hackers, intelligence, and the whole government.
This is in stark contrast to GOP leaders who say that a salacious and unverified 34-page opposition research dossier triggered the probe, a claim repeated by President Trump on Tuesday:
WOW, @foxandfrlends “Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.” And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2017
Four days later, the New York Times crafted an alternate explanation involving Papadopoulos:
WASHINGTON — During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.
About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.
Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.
The NYT's reporter Adam Goldman who worked on the article as part of a six-person effort, tweeted the report, stating "Dossier had nothing to do with @FBI opening July 2016 investigation into Russian election meddling. George Papadopoulos outreach op and Russian hacking did," which the NYT's Maggie Haberman retweeted.
Unfortunately for the New York Times, much like CNN's botched "Bombshell" report from a few weeks ago that Donald Trump Jr. was told about the WikiLeaks emails before their release, only to issue a major correction because Trump Jr. was told after they were made public (by a random person), this "startling revelation" by the NYT that Papadopoulos spilled the beans about Russia having dirt on Clinton was already public information.
Cue the NYT getting split like a cord of wood by the Conservative Treehouse's TheLastRefuge, who dressed down the entire Papadopoulos narrative in a 21-tweet dissertation (below).
1) Um Maggie, [@maggieNYT ] hate to undercut your *explosive story* on origin of Russia Probe. But George Papadopoulos talking in May 2016, is likely about this *open and public information* from April 2016. https://t.co/t9qtqDoLdQ
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
2.) Additionally, worth noting @maggieNYT is nowhere in the Joint Analysis Report [Comey, Brennan and Clapper construct] is anything about George Papadopoulos even hinted or alluded to.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
3.) [@maggieNYT ] ABC in Australia is reporting it was Alexander Downer (Australian High Commissioner to UK) who then let counterparts in US know that George Papadopolous was talking about the Sidney Blumental hack via Clinton Emails.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
4.) The @maggieNYT is also nonsense based on common sense. Papadopoulos was so important that:
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
July 15th 2016 Comey opens counterintel investigation into Russian collusion.
January 15th 2017 FBI visits Papadopoulos for first time.
FBI waited for six months to talk to him?
5. @maggieNYT If George Papadopoulos was so important to the FBI “investigation” why did all “intelligence” agencies released their final JAR report without ever speaking to him?
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
Not even once?
6. No @maggieNYT what you have in your article is a well constructed and brutally familiar pattern of what journalism looks like when the IC use reporters to cover their tracks and create a justification based on a false premise.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
7. The Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby, Nellie Ohr etc. and subsequent Christopher Steele origin of the FISA application source material is a risk to the former leadership within the DOJ National Security Division and FBI Counterintelligence Division.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
8. @maggieNYT That's why both FBI and DOJ sides of this intelligence operation need to create a false origin. The actual FISA application content is a much more explosive risk. Use your common sense logic hat and see when you are being played.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
9. @maggieNYT USE COMMON SENSE: If a Papadopolous conversation in May 2016 was the origin, the source material, of the FBI counterintelligence operation, then why were they denied a FISA application in June/July 2016 ?
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
10. @maggieNYT The wife of Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS), Mary B. Jacoby, with years of Russia-angled reporting –including Donald Trump– visits the White House on April 19th 2016. https://t.co/2dqBvDPWYw pic.twitter.com/j90bqiF4X7
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
11. @maggieNYT Mary B Jacoby is a deep part of Clinton's political camp going all the way back to the Rose Law Firm. You know that because you know her.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
After the April 19, 2016, WH visit, the DNC and Clinton campaign hire Mary and Glenn (Fusion GPS) for the "trump project". pic.twitter.com/q22kOWXqB6
12. @maggieNYT Immediately after Fusion was paid, Glenn Simpson and Mary Jacoby (Fusion GPS Patriarchs), hire Nellie Ohr. pic.twitter.com/L8jrjyDCh4
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
13. @maggieNYT As you know, Nellie Ohr is the wife of DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr. The same Bruce Ohr who was demoted for meeting with Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele, along with FBI agent Peter Strzok, w/out telling DOJ leadership. pic.twitter.com/aDsieAWMzd
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
14. @maggieNYT Again, you know this stuff. Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson have known each other for years; and have worked on CIA *open source* projects together for a long time. pic.twitter.com/8Gp93KYMc4
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
15 @maggieNYT As you know all of these people are SME's on everything Russia and everything Russia intelligence. It is all of this activity in April and May, not innocuous George Papadopolous reading newspapers, that assembled data and eventually led to the "Russia Probe".
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
16. @maggieNYT on June 24th 2017 Mary Jacoby even publicly stated on her facebook that her work with Glenn is what specifically led to the FBI beginning the "Russia Probe". https://t.co/Zkg0EjpOXE
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
17. @maggieNYT After the initial July 2016 FISA Court denial, the FBI and DOJ team leaned heavily on the external team of Jacoby, Simpson, Ohr, Steele etc. who created the "dossier" that enhanced the application that gained the FISA warrant in Oct. pic.twitter.com/24uYStbtZt
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
18. @maggieNYT as you know, because of the legal framework around them, FISA warrants can be applied retroactively. Wiretaping and monitoring can technically begin while evidence is gathered to justify a DOJ-NSD warrant application later. pic.twitter.com/Kg7GaTEown
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
19. @maggieNYT Which is exactly what former DOJ Attorney General John P. Carlin, National Security Division head, admitted to the FISA Court (October 2016) right before he quit his job. https://t.co/SvQRK9hzjv
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
20. So @maggieNYT the question I have for you is: Did you write that nonsense about George Papadopolous because the IC (FBI/DOJ) tricked you into it?..... OR were you a willing participant in helping transmit political disinformation in an effort to help them cover their tracks? pic.twitter.com/3ZA7XihoVT
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 30, 2017
Meanwhile, as pointed out by The Gateway Pundit's Cristina Laila, the Washington Examiner's Byron York further tore into the NYT report:
So: 1) If Papadopoulos actions drove FBI probe, why wait til nearly Feb 2017 to interview him? If done to keep probe quiet before election, why wait more than two months after vote? 2/4
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 30, 2017
2) When did officials brief Congress about Papadopoulos? They briefed Congress about Carter Page in late summer 2016. 3/4
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 30, 2017
3) Did officials seek a surveillance warrant on Papadopoulos? They reportedly got one on Carter Page in summer 2016. Did they try to get one on Papadopoulos? If not, why not? 4/4
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 30, 2017
One add: Not saying Papadopoulos played no role. But questions about whether his part was so central in starting FBI probe in July 2016.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 30, 2017
Perhaps the most embarrassing part for the New York Times isn't that they appear to have published yet another massive case of fake news, but that it took six of their “best and brightest” to cobble it together.
In a video message posted online on May 6, 2017, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu joined US President Trump in labeling CNN and the New York Times "fake news."
Netanyahu took issue with a series of reports in the Western press about a declaration from one faction of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas that the group wants to restore the 1967 borders with Israel. The New York Times reported that "in an intensifying struggle for leadership of the Palestinian cause... ["Hamas Moderates"] are trying to offer a more mainstream-friendly version of its vision."
CNN's headline said: Hamas says it accepts '67 borders but doesn't recognize Israel.
Netanyahu called this "fake news" and asked: "Is moving from calling for genocide of all Jews to calling just for the annihilation of Israel – is that progress or moderation?"
"The new Hamas document says Israel has no right to exist. It says every inch of our land belongs to the Palestinians," Netanyahu explained. "It says there is no acceptable solution other than to remove Israel. So why does Hamas say there is a consensus for a smaller Palestinian state now? In order to destroy Israel later. They want to use their state to destroy our state."
"It's bad enough Hamas lies to the world. We don't also have to lie to ourselves," he added.